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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9341, 10 April 1893, Page 2

On the fourth pago will be found a report of the proceedings at the Hut I ings Police Court on Saturday, our Hastings correspondent's letter, and an article from the Yeoman iv reference to the totaliaator. The rehearsal of "Kip Van Winkel" will be held this evening, Instead of tomorrow evening as had been arranged. A public meeting in connection with tlie Queen's Fund will be held in the Town Hall ab 3 o'clock on Friday afternoou next. Mr C. D. Kennedy is about to make a trip to the Home Country shortly. He will probably leave Jiapier before the end of the mouth. A chess match by telegraph has been arranged between the operators of the Wellington and Napier telegraph offices, play to commence on the 22nd instant. Our readers are reminded that Captain Jackson Barry lectures in the Theatre Royal to-night. Those who attend will be interested, for he is a good yarnspinner. The Colonial Mutual Office send an ornamental sheet containing views of their offices In nine large cities in Australasia, anil also the London office. They suggest that the society has wide ramifications. Mr W. F. Knight met with an accident at Uanevirke on Saturday. The horae he was riding bolted, and after a brisk gallop fell, bringing down Mr Knight. We are glai! to state that he was not seriously Injured, We understand that Inspector Emerson will forward to the Justice Department the depositions taken at Hastings recently, in the case in which a man named Alexander Gillies was charged with the laiceny of a aaddle and acquitted, The Rev. J. F. Jones will deliver a lecture in Che Baptist Ohmch this evening on the recently discovered Greek manuscript) of tUe Gospel according to Peter. Thtre will be no charge for admission, but a collection will be taken up iv aid of the Sunday school library, The Auckland 'cyclists, Messrs Surman and Dacre, who wil! compete at the bicycle meeting on the Recreation Ground next Saturday, arrived in Napier yesterday. Mr Firth, another Auckland wheelman, will arrive on Friday next, and will also try conclusions with our local lovers of tbe steel steed. Ab the Resident Magistrate's Court on Saturday, before Mr Turnbull, R.M., John .Boyle, an old man who had. been several times recently fined for drunkenness, was charged with being an habitual drunkard. Defendant pleaded that he was only drinking his pension He was sentenced to a month's hard lab,or. In reference to the charges made by Mr Rees a^ainßt Messrs Cadman and Smith, we are informed that Mr Bees bus not had any writ served upon him, but hat he has received a letter from Mr | Cadman's solicitors requesting him to apologise for publishing the memorandum to which exception has been taken. When we let & little daylight into the affairs of the New Zealan i Times happy , family on Friday last, in ao article headed "Beeves on Top," we were nnder the impression that the Minister for Education only receive! £200 a year for keeping that 3ournal of the " right color." According to the Wellington Press this was an error, Mr Reeves 13 getting 220 C a year for managing the paper, and £100 a year for writing for it. There were six people In the cells yesterday. Two of these were young men named John Walker and John Sutton, arrested on Saturday on a charge of stealing n letter from the City Buffet. Thomas Roper was arrested on the arrival of the Rotomahana from Wellington, on the charge of being a stowaway. Of the others, two were " ordinary drunks," and the other an inebriate remanded to be treated in gaol by tbe doctor. The Uiley and Colina' concert company presented a very liberal programme in the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, including songs, dances, and instrumental selections. The great feature of the evening was the very graceful and clever performances of Madame Lyala (the I lady with tbe iron jaw) and her husband. The latter is by iar the beet contortionist

that han yet been seen in Napier, while Mudaine LyoU'a performance has never lieoa equalled here. The company, appear again on Wednesday, when fresh feats are promised. Our Waipawa correspondent, writing on Saturday, says:— Extensive work ia going on at the railway station, a ballast train and a gong of men being engaged in preparations for making a proper cattle yard, whiob when completed will put our station on a pur with Makotuku and other places in the Imali.— Thirty se»en vohinira of new Imnks wen> tin-day n^ded I to the Public Library. — Mr Sidney Johnston and family, and Mrs Henry' Russell 1 of Monnt Herbert arrived at Auckland yesterday by tho Tninnl, all well. Mrs Russell will arrive at Napier on Tuesday, but Mr Johnston and family proceed to Wellington, where they will make a stay of two days before leaving for Takapan. In our issue of Wednesday last we re* ferred to the rather startling activity of Ngarnhoe, our facts being snpplied by an eye-witness. Another gentleman tells us that the smnke issuing from the mountain is greater in volume than has been the case for a score of years past, mid that) the smoke comes in ft series ot hugo jets, na though produced by a continued susccssion of explosions. The Rummiti of Ng.irnhoe te 7481 feet above sea level. Tho mountain of which Ngaruhoe is a parb is Tongariro, but it Is Ngaruhoe, with its summit crowned with eternal snow, that is the volft.-ino. Neither Tongariro nor Ngaruhoe can be safely ascended except in summer time. Snrveyors find the mountain too shaky to be of any u?e tor observations, and m&ny scientists are convinced that it will some day be the scene of an eruption on a gigantic scale. The Napier Sailing Club had a match on Saturday afternoon in the inner harbor, and about a dozen boats competed. The course was from off Long Point, round the Watchman, thence to a buoy moored off Maraeraha, and thence home. Mr Sainsbury officiated as judge and starter, and got the boats well away to a flying start, the wind being fresh from the north-west. The Loch Fyne, owned by Mr Duncan Gillies, with the lion of Scotland proudly floating at the peak, rounded the Watchman first, followed by the Active, Nimble, and the others tailing off behind. The boats held about the same order down to Maraetaha, where the wind dropped, and the boats were at a standstill for about an hour. The race was only finished about 7 o'clock, bnt the Locb Fyne kept the lead to the end, and won easily with a lot to spare. The winning boat was built by Mr Gillies, a workman nb the North British Freezing Works, and considering that he is only e,n amateur boat builder, he n?ay well be proud of his handiwork. The match Napier Club v. Mercantile ab the Recreation Ground on Saturday brought the cricket season to a close by finishing their second cup match. The result was a win for the Mercantile by four ■wickets, dne to the steady play of Bennett (17) and Cotterill (12 not out). Vi olstenholme, J. Gardiner, and Jones did the bowling for Napier. The other scores on Saturday were Parker 0, Anderson 0, Green 2, Cato 4 (not out), and byes 2. After the match a "pick up" game finished out time, Wolstenholme's side scoring 80 and Fulton's notching 9. It is but just at the couchision of the year's crickeb to complimeut the custodians upon the splendid condition in which they got both the grounds during the season, The liecreation Ground on Saturday was already more fil for football than cricket, owing to the want of proper drainage, and it is pitifn] to think of Che destruction that the foot bill season will work in the beautiful turl unless draining is attended to, A meeting of the stewards of the Town and Suburban Racing Club was held at the Tnradale Hotel last Saturday eveniug, Mr \Y\ Heslop (president and honorary starter) sent in his resignation as starter, but was persuaded by the other stewards to continue in the position until after the next race meeting, whan a paid starter would be appointed. Mr W. Heslop has been acting as starter since February 18th, 1885, the first race meeting of the club, which was held in his paddock at Omaranui, kindly lent by him for the occasion. At that meeting Mangaohane won the Taradale Handicap of 30 soys. The whole, value of the stakes given then was .£l3B (including a bracelet of the value of £20 given by Messrs Stock and Cohen and a watch of the value of £18, given by Mr P, C. Jones ; while the value of the stakes to be given at tho next meetiug ot the club on the 24th of May will be £360. Tlie stewards haviDg expressed their regret at Mr Heslop's decision to retire from the startership, he promiaed to take the same interest in tho club as he had done in the past. Mr Heslop still occupies the position of president of the club. The adjourned conference between the Inspector of Schools and the school teachers regardiug the amendment of the regulations for the appointment, instruction, and training of pupil teachers was held in the old Provincial Council Chambers on Saturday morning. The teachers of the district do not appear to interest themselves very much in the matter, as only eight were present, and they had no scheme to propose to the meeting. Ultimately the inspector's draft regulations were adopted in the lump, with one important exception. The draft proposed that the second and third year pupil teachers should be examined in two of the following subjects to be chosen by the candidates :— Drawing, science, algebra, Euclid, French, and Latin. The teachers decided to recommend that drawing and science should be compulsory, and that the other subjects should be 0.-nitted. This means that no instruction in mathematics and languages will be given to pupil teachers till they are out of the course and have taken their E certificate, and the reason for such recommendation is evidently to save the teachers the trouble of preparing the candidates in these subjects, This is a departnre from the recognised curriculum of pupil teachers, and Is distinctly a retrograde step. In every other educational district in the colony these subjects are taught, and in most cases are compulsory, It has always been unders'ood that it is desirable to raise the status of the primary school teacher, and yefc after fourteen years' experience the profession in Hawke's Bay have confessed thab they are, for some reason, averse to cavryiua oub the present system of training. They appear to expect that a young teacher who bns confined himself to simple English subj»cts until about his eighteenth or nineteenth year, shall qualify himself to pass his D examination in mathematics and languages after one year's preparation, whereas everyone knows that the ordinary student requires several years' work in these subjects before he can reach the required standard. According to recent sales the value of freehold property in the city of London exceeds £2,000,000 an acre. Last week, says a London correspondent, writing on February 3rd, I alluded to a phenomenal price realised for a house in the heart of the monetary world. This established a record which has not yet been beateD, The figure was very nearly reached, however, yesterday, when property in the same street brought close upon £50 per foot. This was Nos. 25, 26, aud 27, Cornhill, in which, by-the-by, Darwin had an interest, a reversion of the property having been given him by an enthusiastic admirer. 'i"ie same testator, Mr Anthony Rich, also left a large estate to another scientist, Mr T. W. Huxley, F.R.S, Jeremiah Brown, one of the soldiers who, it Is said, fought at Waterloo, and who has been on exhibition at the Cyclorama of that famous battle from time to time, was discovered lying on a doorstep iv Swansou-street, Melbourne, one night, At the age of 101 years he was homeless, friendless, and shelterless, aud bnt for a kindly police constable would have spent the cold and cheerless night on a doorstep like any ordinary vagrant. Lie was lodged for the nigho in tho city watehhouse, and next morning Appeared before the City Court iiench charged with vagrancy. The Bench, of which Mr Craib, J. P., was chairman, were disinclined to deal with the old soldior aa an everyday vagrant, and thereforo soufc him to the Immigrants' Home.